Cultivating Stillness
It is the purpose of a Daoist Longevity Practice. Do you have the patience to let your mud settle?
The Alchemical Ash
~ This piece is an original teaching story and the first in a three-part series. The next two pieces are supporting essays and will appear respectively in two weeks and four weeks. The scholar had spent three years tracing the lineage of a single, rare manuscript on...
The Abundance of The Present
Preface: Those of an age will remember the television show “Dragnet” with Sergeant Joe Friday. It began with the over-voice saying: "Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear/see is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.” In this...
The Self You’ve Been Seeking is Already Here
The Self You’ve Been Seeking is Already Here On the Delusion of Lack and the Freedom of Becoming Nobody We often treat awakening as a destination—a distant mountain peak we must climb through sheer effort, "magic" mantras, or intellectual gymnastics. But there is a...
The Dance of Change: Understanding Bagua in the Daoist Tradition
To understand Bagua (Eight Trigrams), one must first look past the physical movements of the martial art and toward the very architecture of the universe as viewed by the ancient Daoist sages. In the Daoist cosmogony, we move from the Wuji (the Empty Void) to the...
Cultivating Your Inner Healer: The Power of Qi
What do you do when you bang your elbow? Most of us put our hand over the point of pain, and do so without thinking. Those of us who have a sense of our body's qi understand the center of the palm is an energy release point. We believe we can send our qi out...
The Effortless Path: An Examination of Non-Doing (Wu Wei) and the Nature of Being
There are moments when profound philosophical insights emerge not from strenuous study or deep contemplation, but as clear, unsolicited notions. The insight that “There is nothing you can do to improve yourself. So stop trying,” is one such moment—a spontaneous...
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